If there is life on Proxima Centauri b, it could take the Extremely Large Telescope as little as 10 hours to detect its ...

China's space agency is building a new space telescope that will rival current top-tier observatories. Known as the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), it will not only be as powerful as the ...

Figure 1: Key optical innovations in astronomy. The drive was then on to build bigger and more powerful telescopes with greater magnification. It was soon realized that what was to become known as ...

Set to launch no earlier than 2026, the telescope will feature a primary mirror with a diameter of 6.6 feet (2 meters). Even though that's slightly smaller than the width of the Hubble Space ...

Array would leverage robotic and crewed lunar missions and China-led International Lunar Research Station set to take shape ...

There was a time when building a telescope was a rite of passage for budding astronomers, much as building a radio was the coming age for electronics folks. These days, many things are cheaper to ...

NASA will soon be launching a new space telescope with an epic mission ... and it may even clarify the origin of some of the building blocks of life itself. As an astrophysics mission, the ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...